Word: supportively
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Cambridge's unusual proportional representation system permits voters to support as many Council candidates as they like, in order of preference. We suggest you head your ballot with the names of the seven pro-rent control candidates, and that you give your #1 vote--which counts most--to incumbent Councilor David E. Sullivan...
...Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed five candidates who support its platform of clean government and progressive housing legislation--incumbents David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55, as well as newcomer Jonathan S. Myers, former director of youth programs for the Cambridge Housing Authority...
Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring largescale builders to add to the stock of affordable housing...
...conservative Independent candidates are attracting support through their attacks on rent control this year, while members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association--David E. Sullivan, Alice K. Wolf, Saundra M. Graham and Francis H. Duehay '55--are promising to restrict development in the city. Two Independents--Ed Cyr and incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci--also support rent control but scorn involvement with the CCA, which both call a snobbish product of the academic community...
Observes Marilyn Chrisman, president of Nova Health Services, the nonprofit company that runs the unusual joint operation: "There was a big need for a continuum of services and greater support" for the women. Instead of paying an average fee of $200 for an abortion, the women who choose the adoption service carry their children to term and the clinic pays their medical expenses...